The University of Texas at El Paso, an NSSC MSI Research Institution, was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the NRC to establish new courses in nuclear engineering and to conduct research on next-generation materials for nuclear reactors.

The College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a Non-Tenure or Tenure faculty position in the Department of Nuclear Engineering. This will be a 0.50 FTE UC Berkeley faculty position joint with a 0.50 FTE staff scientist position in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering has installed some very exciting new equipment this month. First, a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), equipped with a Back Scatter Electron detector (BSE) and Environmental (E-SEM) mode, and later, the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) from GE-Tec was installed in the SEM turning the standard SEM into an AFSEM allowing for novel correlative microscopy studies.

NE Professor Rick Norman gave a talk on Friday, October 9 to the NE Department entitled, "Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Neutrinos Change Their Stripes". Professor Norman discussed the discoveries that merited the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics and his role in the SNO project. The slides for his talk are attached below.